JavaBlackBelt's Ruby Test

Filed in archive Programming on June 25, 2006

The JavaBlackBelt, certification community site, is trying to put together a Ruby programming language basics test. They are accepting questions that could become part of the test right now. It looks to me as though they have about 35 questions so far and are looking for more.

I think it take some guts for JavaBlackBelt to do this for the Ruby Language. Kudos to the JavaBlackBelt team for trying to put this test together on their site like this. Right now I'm looking at this from the Java community's point of view and see no problem with it. I wonder how the Ruby folks feel about having a test for their language on a primarily Java site?


The Ruby Basic exam objective is to test knowledge of the language core syntax and OO concepts. You should understand that Ruby is genuine object-oriented language and everything it manipulates with is objects. No specific API knowledge is required. Only most frequently used built-in classes and methods are covered. The knowledge of any external libraries is not necessary.